WO2017028769A1

WO2017028769A1 - Application program search method and device

Info

Publication number: WO2017028769A1
Application number: PCT/CN2016/095325
Authority: WO
Inventors: 宋雨濛
Original assignee: 北京金山安全软件有限公司
Priority date: 2015-08-19
Filing date: 2016-08-15
Publication date: 2017-02-23
Also published as: CN105138629A; US10789308B2; US20180218077A1

Abstract

Provided are an application program search method and device. After receiving an application program search keyword entered in a search box (S100), local searching in a mobile terminal for an application program that matches the keyword (S200); if an application program is found, displaying the identification information of the matching application program (S300), otherwise, sending the keyword to an application market search engine, so as to search in the application market an application program matching the keyword (S400); determining whether the identification information of the application program, matching the keyword and fed back by the application market search engine, is received in a preset period of time (S500); if yes, displaying the received identification information of the application program (S600). Using the method and the device, the user only needs to enter in the search box the application program search keyword, thereby simplifying the search process for simple operation, saving time for users and improving user experience.

Description

Application search method and device

The present application claims priority to Chinese Patent Application No. 201510512291.7, entitled "Application Search Method and Apparatus", filed on Aug. 19, 2015, the entire disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference.

Technical field

The present application relates to the field of application search technologies, and in particular, to an application search method and apparatus.

Background technique

With the development of technology, more and more applications are installed in users' mobile terminals, and users are increasingly demanding applications.

Users often need to find the application they need, and a search box is provided in the mobile terminal for the user to input keywords to search for an application installed locally by the mobile terminal. The application that the user searches for may be a locally installed application or a locally unmounted application. When the application searched by the user is not installed locally on the mobile terminal, the user will not be able to search for the corresponding application through the search box. In this case, the user needs to search through the webpage.

Since the user generally cannot know whether the searched application has been installed locally on the mobile terminal, the user needs to first input a keyword in the search box to search, and when the search is not found, the keyword is searched through the webpage for searching, which is cumbersome.

Summary of the invention

An object of the embodiments of the present application is to provide an application search method and apparatus to simplify an application search process.

To achieve the above objective, the embodiment of the present application discloses an application search method, which is applied to a mobile terminal, and the method includes:

Receiving application search keywords entered in the search box;

Searching, by the mobile terminal, an application that matches the keyword, and if found, displaying the identification information of the matched application; otherwise, sending the keyword to the application market search engine to search and search in the application market The keyword matching application;

Determining whether the identification information of the application matched by the application market search engine and matching the keyword is received within a preset time period, and if yes, displaying the identification information of the received application.

Optionally, the identification information of the application is an icon of the application, and the icon of the displayed application has an application source identifier.

Optionally, the identifier information of the matching application is displayed, including:

According to a preset arrangement manner, the identification information of the matching application is arranged, wherein the preset arrangement manner is: determining the order of the identification information of the application according to the name of the application, or according to the application of the user The usage information of the program determines the order in which the identification information of the application is arranged.

Optionally, the displaying the identifier information of the received application includes:

According to a preset arrangement manner, the identifier information of the received application is displayed, wherein the preset arrangement manner is: determining the order of the identification information of the application according to the name of the application, or according to the user The usage information of the application determines the order in which the identification information of the application is arranged.

Optionally, it also includes:

Receiving a first click operation on the displayed identification information of the application locally searched by the mobile terminal, and opening an application corresponding to the identification information of the first click operation click according to the first click operation.

Optionally, it also includes:

Receiving a second click operation on the displayed identification information of the application searched by the application market search engine, and opening an application market where the application corresponding to the identification information of the second click operation is opened according to the second click operation interface.

Optionally, the method further includes: when the identifier information of the application that matches the keyword that is fed back by the application market search engine is not received within a preset time period, sending the keyword to another search engine for searching .

An application search device is applied to a mobile terminal, and the device includes: keyword connection a receiving unit, a local search unit, a first identifier display unit, a first keyword sending unit, a receiving determining unit, and a second identifier display unit,

The keyword receiving unit is configured to receive an application search keyword input in a search box;

The local search unit is configured to locally search for an application that matches the keyword in the mobile terminal, and if the search is found, trigger the first identifier display unit, otherwise, trigger the first keyword sending unit;

The first identifier display unit is configured to display identifier information of the matched application;

The first keyword sending unit is configured to send the keyword to an application market search engine to search for an application that matches the keyword in an application market;

The receiving determining unit is configured to determine whether the identifier information of the application that matches the keyword that is fed back by the application market search engine is received within a preset time period, and if received, trigger the second identifier Display unit;

The second identifier display unit is configured to display the identifier information of the received application.

Optionally, the first identifier display unit is configured to: display, according to a preset arrangement manner, identifier information of the matching application, where the preset arrangement manner is: determining an application according to the name of the application. The order of the identification information of the program is sequentially arranged, or the order of the identification information of the application is determined according to the usage information of the application by the user.

Optionally, the second identifier display unit is configured to: display, according to a preset arrangement manner, identifier information of the received application, where the preset arrangement manner is: determining according to the name of the application. The order of the identification information of the application is sequentially arranged, or the order of the identification information of the application is determined according to the usage information of the application by the user.

Optionally, the method further includes: an application opening unit,

The application opening unit is configured to receive a first click operation on the displayed identification information of the application locally searched by the mobile terminal, and open the identification information of the first click operation click according to the first click operation The corresponding application.

Optionally, the method further includes: an application market interface opening unit,

The application market interface opening unit is configured to receive a second click operation on the displayed identification information of the application searched by the application market search engine, and open the second click operation according to the second click operation. The application market interface where the application corresponding to the identification information is located.

Optionally, the method further includes: a second keyword sending unit, configured to: in the first step, the determining result of the determining unit is: matching the keyword that is not received by the application market search engine within a preset time period When the application's identification information is sent, the keyword is sent to other search engines for searching.

The embodiment of the present application further provides a storage medium, where the storage medium is used to store an application, and the application is used to execute an application search method described in the present application at runtime. The application search method described in the application is applied to a mobile terminal, and the method includes:

Receiving application search keywords entered in the search box;

The embodiment of the present application further provides an application, where the application is used to execute an application search method described in the present application at runtime. The application search method described in the application is applied to a mobile terminal, and the method includes:

Receiving application search keywords entered in the search box;

Determining whether the identification information of the application matched by the application market search engine and matching the keyword is received within a preset time period, and if yes, displaying the identifier of the received application information.

The embodiment of the present application further provides a mobile terminal, where the mobile terminal includes:

a processor, a memory, a communication interface, and a bus;

The processor, the memory, and the communication interface are connected by the bus and complete communication with each other;

The memory stores executable program code;

The processor runs a program corresponding to the executable program code by reading executable program code stored in the memory for:

Receiving application search keywords entered in the search box;

An application search method and apparatus provided by the embodiment of the present application may search for an application matching the keyword locally in the mobile terminal after receiving the application search keyword input in the search box, if not, The keyword is then sent to the application market search engine to search for an application that matches the keyword in the application market. Applying the technical solution of the present application, the user only needs to input the application search keyword in the search box, which simplifies the search process, is easy to operate, saves the user's time, and the user feels good.

DRAWINGS

In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present application or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings to be used in the embodiments or the prior art description will be briefly described below. Obviously, the drawings in the following description are only It is a certain embodiment of the present application, and other drawings can be obtained according to the drawings without any creative work for those skilled in the art.

FIG. 1 is a flowchart of an application search method according to an embodiment of the present application;

2 is a schematic diagram of an application source identifier provided by an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of an application search apparatus according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

detailed description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application are clearly and completely described in the following with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application. It is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present application, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments obtained by a person of ordinary skill in the art based on the embodiments of the present application without departing from the inventive scope are the scope of the present application.

As shown in FIG. 1 , an application search method provided by an embodiment of the present application is applied to a mobile terminal, and the method may include:

S100. Receive an application search keyword input in a search box.

The application search keyword may be a manually input Chinese pinyin, a Chinese character, an English word, an English shorthand, etc., and the application search keyword may also be a Chinese pinyin, a Chinese character, an English word obtained by recognizing the input voice, English shorthand and so on.

S200, locally searching for an application matching the keyword in the mobile terminal, determining whether an application matching the keyword is searched, if the search is performed, executing S300, otherwise executing S400;

Specifically, the application that matches the keyword can be locally searched for in the mobile terminal by comparing the installation package name of each application installed locally by the mobile terminal with the input application search keyword. Of course, the application may be otherwise limited.

S300. Display identification information of the matched application.

The identification information of the application may include at least one of an icon of the application, a name of the application, and a version number of the application.

Specifically, the S300 may specifically include:

According to a preset arrangement manner, the identification information of the matching application is arranged, wherein the preset arrangement manner is: determining the order of the identification information of the application according to the name of the application, or according to the application of the user The usage information of the program determines the identification information of the application The order of the order.

Specifically, when the name of the application is English, the identification information of the application may be sorted according to the first letter of the name of each application, for example, using the order of A to Z. When the name of the application is Chinese, the identification information of the application can be sorted according to the initials of the Hanyu Pinyin of the name of each application. Further, when the initials are the same, the second letter can be used to determine the order in which the identification information of the application with the same initials is arranged.

Specifically, the method for determining the order of the identification information of the application according to the usage information of the application by the user may be in two ways: the first one is to determine the identification information of the application according to the usage information of the application by the local user. The order of arrangement; the second is to determine the order of the identification information of the application according to the usage information of the application by multiple users. The usage information may be the duration of use, the frequency of use, and the like.

The first method sorts the identification information of the application according to the usage information of the application by the local user, so that the ranking of the identification information is more targeted, and more in line with the interests and usage habits of the local users. The second method sorts the identification information of the application according to the usage information of the application by multiple users, so that the ordering of the identification information is more general, and the application of interest to the public can be recommended to the local user.

In other embodiments of the present application, the method may further include: receiving a first click operation on the displayed identification information of the application locally searched by the mobile terminal, and opening the first click operation according to the first click operation The identification information corresponds to the application.

S400: Send the keyword to an application market search engine to search for an application that matches the keyword in the application market;

The application market search engine may be an application market search engine of the operating system provider of the mobile terminal, or may be an application market search engine of the mobile terminal manufacturer. The application is not limited herein. Specifically, the application market search engine can search only in a certain number of applications when searching, such as searching in an application in a popular list.

Among them, the application in the popular list can be obtained through data mining technology, and generate a detail page with application details and application download links.

S500. Determine whether the application market search engine feedback is received within a preset time period. The identification information of the application matched by the keyword, if yes, execute S600; otherwise, the execution of the present application is ended.

S600. Display identification information of the received application.

The identification information of the application may be an icon of the application, and the icon of the displayed application may have an application source identifier. For example, the application source identifier indicating that the application source is the application market may be as shown by the identifier 001 in FIG. Of course, the identification information of the application locally searched by the mobile terminal may or may not be accompanied by the application source identifier. The application source identifier in the identification information of the application searched in the application market may be different from the application source identifier in the identification information of the locally searched application.

Specifically, the S600 may specifically include:

In other embodiments of the present application, the method may further include: receiving a second click operation on the displayed identification information of the application searched by the application market search engine, and opening the second click operation according to the second click operation The application market interface where the application corresponding to the clicked identification information is located.

The open app market interface can be an application's details page, which can include application details and application download links, where users can browse the app details and download the app via the download link on the details page.

Another application search method provided by the embodiment of the present application may further include:

When the identification information of the application that matches the keyword that is fed back by the application market search engine is not received within the preset time period, the keyword is sent to another search engine for searching.

Among them, other search engines can be search engines such as Baidu and Google. Sending keywords to other search engines for searching is an existing technology, and the application will not be described again.

An application search method provided by an embodiment of the present application may search for an application that matches a keyword locally in a mobile terminal after receiving an application search keyword input in a search box. If not found, the keyword is sent to the application market search engine to search for an application that matches the keyword in the application marketplace. Applying the technical solution of the present application, the user only needs to input the application search keyword in the search box, which simplifies the search process, is easy to operate, saves the user's time, and the user feels good.

Corresponding to the above method embodiment, the present application also provides an application search device.

As shown in FIG. 3, an application search device provided by an embodiment of the present application is applied to a mobile terminal, and the device may include: a keyword receiving unit 100, a local search unit 200, a first identifier display unit 300, and a first The keyword transmitting unit 400, the receiving determining unit 500, and the second identifier display unit 600,

The keyword receiving unit 100 is configured to receive an application search keyword input in a search box;

The local search unit 200 is configured to locally search for an application that matches the keyword in the mobile terminal, and if found, trigger the first identifier display unit 300; otherwise, trigger the first keyword sending unit. 400;

Specifically, the application that matches the keyword can be locally searched for in the mobile terminal by comparing the installation package name of each application installed locally by the mobile terminal with the input application search keyword.

The first identifier display unit 300 is configured to display identifier information of the matched application;

Specifically, the first identifier display unit 300 may be specifically configured to: display, according to a preset arrangement manner, identifier information of a matching application, where the preset arrangement manner is: determining according to the name of the application program. The order of the identification information of the application is sequentially arranged, or the order of the identification information of the application is determined according to the usage information of the application by the user.

The first method sorts the identification information of the application according to the usage information of the application by the local user, so that the ranking of the identification information is more targeted, and more in line with the interests and usage habits of the local users.

The second method sorts the identification information of the application according to the usage information of the application by multiple users, so that the ordering of the identification information is more general, and the application of interest to the public can be recommended to the local user.

The first keyword sending unit 400 is configured to send the keyword to an application market search engine to search for an application that matches the keyword in an application market;

The receiving determining unit 500 is configured to determine whether the identifier information of the application that matches the keyword that is fed back by the application market search engine is received within a preset time period, and if received, trigger the second Identification display unit 600;

The second identifier display unit 600 is configured to display the identifier information of the received application.

The identification information of the application may be an icon of the application, and the icon of the displayed application may have an application source identifier.

Specifically, the second identifier display unit 600 may be specifically configured to: display the identifier information of the received application program according to a preset arrangement manner, wherein the preset arrangement manner is: determining an application according to the name of the application program. The order of the identification information of the program is sequentially arranged, or the order of the identification information of the application is determined according to the usage information of the application by the user.

In other embodiments of the present application, the apparatus shown in FIG. 3 may further include: an application opening unit,

In other embodiments of the present application, the apparatus shown in FIG. 3 may further include: an application market interface opening unit,

The application search device provided by the embodiment of the present application may further include: a second keyword sending unit, configured to: in the receiving determining unit 500, the result of the determination is that the When the identification information of the application that matches the keyword is fed back by the market search engine, the keyword is sent to other search engines for searching.

An application search device provided by an embodiment of the present application may search for an application that matches a keyword locally in a mobile terminal after receiving an application search keyword input in a search box, and if not, the key is Words are sent to the application market search engine to search for applications that match the keywords in the app marketplace. Applying the technical solution of the present application, the user only needs to input the application search keyword in the search box, which simplifies the search process, is easy to operate, saves the user's time, and the user feels good.

Correspondingly, the embodiment of the present application further provides a storage medium, where the storage medium is used to store an application, and the application is used to execute an application search method described in the present application at runtime. The application search method described in the application is applied to a mobile terminal, and the method includes:

Receiving application search keywords entered in the search box;

After applying the application search keyword input in the search box, the application that matches the keyword can be locally searched in the mobile terminal, and if not searched, the keyword is sent to the application market search engine. Search for applications that match keywords in the app marketplace. Applying the technical solution of the present application, the user only needs to input the application search keyword in the search box, which simplifies the search process, is easy to operate, saves the user's time, and the user feels good.

Correspondingly, the embodiment of the present application further provides an application, where the application is used to execute an application search method described in the present application at runtime. The application search method described in the application is applied to a mobile terminal, and the method includes:

Receiving application search keywords entered in the search box;

Correspondingly, the embodiment of the present application further provides a mobile terminal. As shown in FIG. 4, the mobile terminal includes:

a processor 410, a memory 420, a communication interface 430, and a bus 440;

The processor 410, the memory 420, and the communication interface 430 are connected by the bus 440 and complete communication with each other;

The memory 420 stores executable program code;

The processor 410 runs a program corresponding to the executable program code by reading executable program code stored in the memory for:

Receiving application search keywords entered in the search box;

It should be noted that, in this context, relational terms such as first and second are used merely to distinguish one entity or operation from another entity or operation, and do not necessarily require or imply such entities or operations. There is any such actual relationship or order between them. Furthermore, the term "comprises" or "comprises" or "comprises" or any other variations thereof is intended to encompass a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or device that comprises a plurality of elements includes not only those elements but also Other elements, or elements that are inherent to such a process, method, item, or device. In the absence of more restrictions, the elements defined by the statement "including one..." are not excluded. There are additional identical elements in the process, method, article or device that includes the elements.

The various embodiments in the present specification are described in a related manner, and the same or similar parts between the various embodiments may be referred to each other, and each embodiment focuses on the differences from the other embodiments. In particular, for the system embodiment, since it is basically similar to the method embodiment, the description is relatively simple, and the relevant parts can be referred to the description of the method embodiment.

The above description is only the preferred embodiment of the present application, and is not intended to limit the scope of the present application. Any modifications, equivalent substitutions, improvements, etc. made within the spirit and principles of the present application are included in the scope of the present application.

Claims

An application search method is characterized in that it is applied to a mobile terminal, and the method includes:

Receiving application search keywords entered in the search box;

Searching, by the mobile terminal, an application that matches the keyword, and if found, displaying the identification information of the matched application; otherwise, sending the keyword to the application market search engine to search and search in the application market The keyword matching application;

Determining whether the identification information of the application matched by the application market search engine and matching the keyword is received within a preset time period, and if yes, displaying the identification information of the received application.
The method according to claim 1, wherein the identification information of the application is an icon of the application, and the icon of the displayed application has an application source identifier.
The method according to claim 1, wherein the displaying the identification information of the matched application comprises:

According to a preset arrangement manner, the identification information of the matching application is arranged, wherein the preset arrangement manner is: determining the order of the identification information of the application according to the name of the application, or according to the application of the user The usage information of the program determines the order in which the identification information of the application is arranged.
The method according to claim 1, wherein the displaying the identification information of the received application comprises:

According to a preset arrangement manner, the identifier information of the received application is displayed, wherein the preset arrangement manner is: determining the order of the identification information of the application according to the name of the application, or according to the user The usage information of the application determines the order in which the identification information of the application is arranged.
The method of claim 1 further comprising:

Receiving a first click operation on the displayed identification information of the application locally searched by the mobile terminal, and corresponding to the first click operation, opening the identifier information of the first click operation click s application.
The method of claim 1 further comprising:

Receiving a second click operation on the displayed identification information of the application searched by the application market search engine, and opening an application market where the application corresponding to the identification information of the second click operation is opened according to the second click operation interface.
The method according to any one of claims 1 to 6, further comprising: not receiving an identifier of an application that matches the keyword that is fed back by the application market search engine within a preset time period When the information is sent, the keyword is sent to other search engines for searching.
An application search device, which is applied to a mobile terminal, the device includes: a keyword receiving unit, a local search unit, a first identifier display unit, a first keyword sending unit, a receiving determining unit, and a second Identification display unit,

The keyword receiving unit is configured to receive an application search keyword input in a search box;

The local search unit is configured to locally search for an application that matches the keyword in the mobile terminal, and if the search is found, trigger the first identifier display unit, otherwise, trigger the first keyword sending unit;

The first identifier display unit is configured to display identifier information of the matched application;

The first keyword sending unit is configured to send the keyword to an application market search engine to search for an application that matches the keyword in an application market;

The receiving determining unit is configured to determine whether the identifier information of the application that matches the keyword that is fed back by the application market search engine is received within a preset time period, and if received, trigger the second identifier Display unit;

The second identifier display unit is configured to display the identifier information of the received application.
The device according to claim 8, wherein the identification information of the application is an icon of the application, and the icon of the displayed application has an application source identifier.
The device according to claim 8, wherein the first identifier display unit is configured to: display, according to a preset arrangement manner, identifier information of a matching application, where The preset arrangement manner is: determining a sequence of the identification information of the application according to the name of the application, or determining a sequence of the identification information of the application according to the usage information of the application by the user.
The device according to claim 8, wherein the second identifier display unit is configured to: display and display the identifier information of the received application according to a preset arrangement manner, wherein the preset arrangement The method is: determining the order of the identification information of the application according to the name of the application, or determining the order of the identification information of the application according to the usage information of the application by the user.
The device according to claim 8, further comprising: an application opening unit,

The application opening unit is configured to receive a first click operation on the displayed identification information of the application locally searched by the mobile terminal, and open the identification information of the first click operation click according to the first click operation The corresponding application.
The device according to claim 8, further comprising: an application market interface opening unit,

The application market interface opening unit is configured to receive a second click operation on the displayed identification information of the application searched by the application market search engine, and open the second click operation according to the second click operation. The application market interface where the application corresponding to the identification information is located.
The device according to any one of claims 8 to 13, further comprising: a second keyword transmitting unit, configured to: in the receiving determining unit, a result of the determination that: the preset time period is not received When the identification information of the application that matches the keyword is fed back by the application market search engine, the keyword is sent to other search engines for searching.
A storage medium, characterized in that the storage medium is for storing an application for executing an application search method according to claim 1 at runtime.
An application, wherein the application is configured to execute an application search method according to claim 1 at runtime.
A mobile terminal, characterized in that the mobile terminal comprises:

a processor, a memory, a communication interface, and a bus;

The processor, the memory, and the communication interface are connected by the bus and complete communication with each other;

The memory stores executable program code;

The processor runs a program corresponding to the executable program code by reading executable program code stored in the memory for:

Receiving application search keywords entered in the search box;

Searching, by the mobile terminal, an application that matches the keyword, and if found, displaying the identification information of the matched application; otherwise, sending the keyword to the application market search engine to search and search in the application market The keyword matching application;

Determining whether the identification information of the application matched by the application market search engine and matching the keyword is received within a preset time period, and if yes, displaying the identification information of the received application.